What's Coming in Tides of Vengeance - New Battle for Azeroth Content Patch

Ion Hazzikostas has announced Tides of Vengeance, the next content patch for Battle for Azeroth. This Content Patch includes Dwarf and Blood Elf Heritage Armor, the Darkshore Warfront, the Siege of Zuldazar raid, the Crucible of Storms raid, many system improvements and more!\r\r<iframe src="https:\/\/player.twitch.tv\/?autoplay=false&video=v311722491" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" height="378" width="620"><\/iframe><a href="https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/videos\/311722491?tt_content=text_link&tt_medium=vod_embed" style="padding:2px 0px 4px; display:block; width:345px; font-weight:normal; font-size:10px; text-decoration:underline;">Watch WoW Developer Live Stream w\/ Ion Hazzikostas from Warcraft on www.twitch.tv<\/a>\r\r\r\rTides of Vengeance\r\rIon reveals that it's time for the Alliance to strike back. The first major content update is called Tides of Vengeance which drives the faction war deeper:\rThe War Campaign will continue and will affect the enemy faction more.\rIncursions - which are similar to Legion Invasions. The opposite faction is directly attacking your zones. You can use incursions to level your alts.\rNew World Quests\rCharacter Storylines: Saurfang (who was last seen in the stockades), Tyrande (after Teldrassil) and Vol'jin (the Urn)\r\r\r\rDwarf and Blood Elf Heritage Armor\r\rHeritage Armor is not just for Allied Races!\rFirst coming for Dwarves and Blood Elves!\rNo massive questline, if you have a character at max level you can just hop in\rThere are some massive racial scars to explore.\r\r\r\rNew Warfront and Updated Zone: The Battle for Darkshore\r\rThere's a new Warfront coming: The Battle for Darkshore and focuses around Night Elves versus the Forsaken.\rThere's many new structures and upgrades such as ballistae.\rAlliance will start with this one contribution.\rThe outdoor zone of Darkshore will be updated to have max level rares and things to do for the faction that holds it at the time.\r\r\r\rNew and Updated Island Expeditions\r\rThere's two new Island Expeditions coming as well: Jorundall and Havenswood.\rThis will also come with new events and enemies!\rHoldouts that you can trigger.\rAzerite Extractions that you can set up that give you a slow trickle of Azerite.\rThey want to have more clustering and less blanketing of the islands for mobs.\r\r\r\rNew Raid: Siege of Zuldazar\r\rA new raid will be coming called the Siege of Zuldazar (Name not final but location final) with 9 total bosses.\rThis is something new to WoW as a raid that is a completely new experience for each faction!\rThe Alliance will land at the docks and work their way up the pyramid (and seeing new locations inside) and work their way up to Rastakhan.\rHorde will start North of the pyramid and work their way to Rastakhan (which is the midpoint of the raid). Then you'll work your way to the docks and fight against Alliance commanders including Jaina on the high seas!\rOnce your raid is complete, you can talk to your scouts to get information on the other factions movements which allows you to fight the other 3 unique bosses that you haven't fought yet.\r\r\r\rNew Raid: Crucible of Storms\r\rThere is also a second raid called the Crucible of Storms.\rThis is a two boss raid where you try to uncover dark secrets under Stormsong.\rThis comes later after the Zuldazar raid and comes with supporting content so you know why you're there, even if you're Horde and haven't played through Stormsong Valley on an Alliance character.\r\r\r\rSystem Improvements\r\rIn Tides of Vengeance there's a bunch of system improvements:\rIf you've unlocked Champions of Azeroth reputation on one character, it'll unlock on all your characters.\rThere's a lot of reputation-locked faction transmogs and the reputation locks will be removed.\rProgress towards "Earn X Exalted Reputations" will be account wide.\rZandalari Trolls and Kul Tiran Allied Races are not quite around just yet, but "very very close"! In the events following the raid, the bond between us and the Zandalari Trolls \/ Kul Tiran is really formed.\rThere's no new reputation you'll need to acquire to get it -- if you're already Exalted with the Proudmoore Admirality or Zandalari Empire, that's all you'll need from a reputation point of view.\r\r\r\rComing Soon\r\r\r\rBlue Posts\r\r\rWith Battle for Azeroth in full swing, we\u2019re sitting down with Game Director Ion Hazzikostas to get a peek at the next content update.\r\rJoin us live on Twitch Tuesday, September 18 at 11:00 a.m. PDT.\r\r\rThank you to everyone for the time and energy that went into all the questions, and thanks again to the r\/wow moderators for wrangling this beast of a thread. I tried to refresh the thread and go down the list of Top-upvoted questions as best I could, but I know that I missed the majority of the questions due to the sheer volume. I apologize if I wasn't able to cover the topic you wanted to hear about. I also look forward to going back and digging into the reply threads underneath my comments later on, since it was a bit too much to process in real time.\r\rWhen it comes to a lot of the questions asking for specific change, I know that my replies often trend towards explaining why we did a thing you're upset we did, rather than just saying we're going to change it immediately. At the end of the day, if it simply feels bad, an explanation from me probably isn't going to fix that. Change can and will still come to many of these areas, but that's something for the appropriate folks on the development team to discuss, and not something for me to just unilaterally declare here. From Azerite, to Warfront pacing, to Island Expeditions gameplay and rewards, to shamans and other classes, we have a lot to talk about.\r\rAs I mentioned at the outset of this AMA, this is a beginning of an ongoing conversation. In some of my responses today, I referred to plans for our upcoming content update. That patch will be coming to the PTR very soon, and we'll be doing a livestream on Tuesday, September 18 at 11am PDT on the Warcraft Twitch channel where we'll discuss the major pieces of content in the patch. I look forward to continuing the discussion.\rAgain, thank you so very much for your passion and feedback.\r\r\rDid you enjoy this news article? Receive instant notifications when the latest news is published through the Wowhead Discord Webhook and join the community with Wowhead's Discord Server, Twitter, and Facebook.

Commento di DraethDarkstar

on 2018-09-18T13:25:26-05:00

If you've unlocked Champions of Azeroth reputation on one character, it'll unlock on all your characters.\ryes!\r\rThere's a lot of reputation-locked faction transmogs that will be removed.\rYes!\rProgress towards "Earn X Exalted Reputations" will be account wide.\r\rYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

Commento di Perseusz98

on 2018-09-18T13:26:28-05:00

So I guess I've to level up again my dwarf alt...

Commento di Joshmaul

on 2018-09-18T13:27:20-05:00

There's a lot of reputation-locked faction transmogs that will be removed.\r\rRemoved?\r\rI'm thinking they mean the reputation-lock, not the transmogs.

Commento di Nulgar

on 2018-09-18T13:27:23-05:00

yeah yeah, new raids, new Allied Races getting closer, yadda yadda, but the most important thing: no rep requirement for unlocked Transmog appearances anymore! We can use the Legion Order Hall sets on new alts, the Laughin Skull masks, and countless other things like the T15 Shoulder lookalikes from the Shado-Pan Assault!

Commento di Nyarloth

on 2018-09-18T13:27:29-05:00

Where's the bingo?\r\rNot started yet.\r\rIt's not a Q&A

Commento di Rav3nclaw

on 2018-09-18T13:28:26-05:00

Still wish theyd tell us if skinny kul tirans is a thing...

Commento di Dust

on 2018-09-18T13:30:09-05:00

I have so much admiration and respect for how Ion maintains his composure in the face of overwhelming idiocy. He is a credit to the game.

Commento di neyoam

on 2018-09-18T13:31:50-05:00

There's a lot of reputation-locked faction transmogs that will be removed.\r\rRemoved?\r\rthe restrictions will be removed, not the transmog items. For example if You are exalted with Laughing Skull Clan on one char, you will be able to use "skull-mask" mog on your alts.